Maurice_Galley

Maurice Galley

Maurice Galley

English footballer (1934–2017)

Maurice Galley (10 August 1934 – February 2017) is an English former footballer who scored 5 goals from 55 appearances in the Football League playing as a wing half for Chesterfield in the 1950s.[3] He also played non-league football for teams including Boston United,[4] Worksop Town, and Loughborough United, with whom he won the Midland League in 1962–63.[2]

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After his football career finished, Galley joined the police. He was a member of the Nottinghamshire Police football team that won the Police Athletic Association (PAA) Cup in 1969.[5] Galley died in Nottinghamshire in February 2017 at the age of 82.[1]

Galley's brothers Gordon and John Galley also played in the Football League.[2][6]

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    "Maurice Galley". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
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    "Claimed the left half position as his very own". Loughborough Echo. 24 May 2013. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 7 July 2015 – via Highbeam Research.
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    Basson, Stuart (18 February 2010). "Chesterfield FC: Football League players, 1921 to 2008". Chesterfield F.C. Archived from the original (XLS) on 4 December 2011.
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    "Season 1959/60 – Statistics". Archived from the original on 9 July 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2015 and "Season 1960/61 – Statistics". bufc.drfox.org.uk. Ken Fox. Archived from the original on 9 July 2015. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
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    "Team travels from far afield to remember the year of glory" (PDF). Force Times. Nottinghamshire Police. June 2009. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
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    "Player search: Galley, GW (Gordon)". English National Football Archive (ENFA). Retrieved 14 April 2024.
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